We've seen recently how well that works for everyone.
Business groups kick off about regulation and not letting the free market be truly free to let them do things how they wish to.
The UK unions are fairly restrained by legislation that limits their activities, US unions even more so. It isn't an even balance. Ad astra per aspera
In France, it seems there are about 5 million employees in micro-companies and about 9 million in companies with under 250 employees (wikipedia TPE/PME and pme.gouv.fr). Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
And a 200 employees company is already quite large. Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
It's nearly impossible to start a workable small business without a decent stash of capital.
Of course it's not impossible, but even with microcredit it's hardly the open door you seem to assume it is. Most business don't become profitable for at least a couple of years.
As for employers - some are good, some are bad. Either way, workers do not have the same degree of control over their personal finances that employers do.
When your personal welfare depends on having a job, you're in a position of permanent political inequality with the caste which decides whether or not to employ you.
You seem to see this as a natural phenomenon, when in fact it's merely expedient and traditional.
Made by people like you and me,
Aren't unionised train drivers and capitalists also people like you and me? *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Unionised train drivers, at least in France, were in a logic of lets do as much damage as possible and force them to submit. Their reasons were hanging tight to privileges. They were used to act from a very ideologic point of view that might be familiar to yourself :) Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
Methinks you again used a common right-wing phrase without thinking and can't get out of it. *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
French train drivers and big capitalists share something called privilege. As said above. Sigh. Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! (Martin Luther King)
A starbucks opens and the local coffee shop closes, because the custom has been taken away. By great big fat multinational chains. Ad astra per aspera
What happened to the reality based community here?
BTW, anyone in the room besides me (and I assume In Wales) actually IN a union?
Trust me, I loved the things before I had to join one. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
- Jake If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.
That's not the point. The point is that money talks. That means that it doesn't matter how many people are represented, what matters is how much money is represented.
anyone in the room besides me (and I assume In Wales) actually IN a union?
I am. (In fact, just last week we elected our new representative.) *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
